Jekyll Island - Indian Mound Course

Joe Lee's 1975 Indian Mound at Jekyll Island, Lee named it for the aboriginal oyster-shell middens deposited on the property hundreds of years prior, and the name is earned: the course plays through dense maritime forest and past Jekyll's most pristine lakes and marshes, with the mounds themselves still visible along several holes. Though it's the shortest of Jekyll's three 18-hole courses at 6,469 yards (par 72, 71.1 rating, 129 slope), Indian Mound earns its modest yardage the hard way, the par-5s are more difficult than the card suggests, and only one of the par-3s is genuinely soft. The main defenses are the undulating greens and the abundance of strategically situated fairway bunkering that Lee built throughout his collaboration years with Dick Wilson. Generally considered the most open and forgiving of Jekyll's three public courses, pairing well with the tighter Oleander. Part of a 54-hole resort complex (alongside Pine Lakes) that makes Jekyll Island one of the best-value multi-course coastal Georgia stops.